Starring Bezzie, her Mad Scientist husband and their kids Chunky, Moochie, and Baby Sister in a whirlwind "adventure" involving excitement, loss, separation, a series of financially draining transnational moves, hitting rock bottom, climbing up again, and a slight change of plans. Oh, and there will be some knitting involved too!

Monday, February 11, 2008

February 10

Ex-New Jersinian (yeah I know that's the wrong way of saying it, I'm not from here, I don't care) Rebel was predicting that February 10 would be the day we'd get a buttload of snow dumped on us.

I woke up to sunny windy skies.

But by 4:00 p.m. things started to look up.

But alas, it was just a passing quickie snowstorm.

As I type this it's 8 degrees (but negative 9 with the wind chill). The snow and wind yesterday were a result of an arctic front moving through.

The heat has been off since last Friday--so I'm super psyched about that. We might cave and turn it on for a little tonight--we'll see.

I'm even wearing my Uncircumsized Ice Queen--as I forgot my scarf at work on Friday. D'oh!

We got a little snow over night and it did warm up a bit...it is in the single digits. Other than that send us some warm air!!! F-town really needs it your youngest sister wants some relief!! Love, Mom

Oh, the beauty of an upstairs apartment. We are firm believers in leaving the heat off as long as possible. It cannot and must not go on before October 1st, and goes off promptly on May 15th. Unless I get cold. I'm the boss.

We are expecting another freaking foot of freaking snow tomorrow night into Wednesday.

I have hills, a tube, two sleds, a snowboard and somewhere between 8 and a hundred pairs of mittens. The offer to visit still stands...

Hey! an excuse to wear handknits, always a good thing. but don't let your need for saving override your need to stay healthy. Maybe you and chunky could cuddle up to a fish hot water bottle? (I know, I'm twisting the use for your fishie, ubt needs must whent he devil drives...or something like that.

When we lived in the middle of no where, MO, we did not have central heat and air. We had a wood stove. Well, the first winter, all we had was "green" wood to burn, which sucks big time because it just does not heat well at all. We would huddle up on the couch or bed with tons of blankets around us to keep warm. Also, it was very common to have our shampoo/conditioner freeze that first winter.

I understand freezing your ass off. It sucks, but I know you will do just fine.

Well, I'm trying to save money on heat, too. But I set the thermostat at 62, and the first day we got close to zero, the water pipes froze. Nasty mess, and much more costly to repair than paying the heat bill. I cranked it up to 66. Just a suggestion.